..Signal enhancement due to the covalently immobilized contrast agent is demonstrated for excised human vein specimens imaged at 3 T, and its long-term stability is demonstrated during a 4-month incubation period...

..A three-dimensional gradient-echo dynamic imaging application that demonstrates the potential benefits of this approach compared to the present state of the art for certain applications is also presented...

..The main contribution of this review is to show how the combination of selective excitation with parallel imaging provides the latter an added flexibility that can be used to either enhance image quality, increase imaging speed, or both...

..We conclude that the SNR efficiency of volume imaging in conjunction with the short echo spacing afforded by hard pulse trains enables high-resolution 3D HPFSE MRI of a small field-of-view (FOV) with minimal aliasing artifact...

..This model is more complex than simple phantoms based on differences between water and lipid diffusion, but is also devoid of microscopic structures with preferential orientation or perfusion effects...